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The WhatsApp guys are very sharp ex-Yahoo guys who've had tremendous experience with scaling systems. Rick Reed is fairly legendary. Yahoo was a long time FreeB
by tworats 15y ago
The WhatsApp guys are very sharp ex-Yahoo guys who've had tremendous experience with scaling systems. Rick Reed is fairly legendary. Yahoo was a long time FreeBSD shop, so it's not surprising they went with that.
I hope they publish how they did it - in fact let me drop them an email and see if I can convince them to do so.
- cperciva 15y agoYahoo was a long time FreeBSD shop FWIW, Yahoo still uses FreeBSD extensively.
- on4n1st 15y agoI wish they would publish details as well. Blogtweeting an achievement is meaningless unless relevant context is also given. Hardware specs? Software stack? Software tuning? sysctl tuning? We need more info, guys!